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From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Related topics: Household
bric-a-bracbric-a-brac /ˈbrɪk ə ˌbræk/ noun [uncountable] British English DHsmall objects that are not worth very much money but are interesting or attractive
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bric-a-brac• Clothes and bric-a-brac have been pouring into the hospice's charity shops in response to an appeal for more goods.• There will be cakes, bric-a-brac, toys and books.• Any good clean jumble or bric-a-brac will be appreciated.• Please support us by providing bric-a-brac, clothes, unwanted but saleable articles, etc.• Soon villages by railway lines became centres of new craft industries, in wood-carving and other allegedly traditional bric-a-brac.• In the first stable, off the bay, was an astonishing display of unrelated bric-a-brac.• The shelves in the living room were lined with bric-a-brac and religious figurines.
Origin bric-a-brac (1800-1900) French bric-à-brac
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